A friend sent a link to an NPR station where you take a quiz on issues and get matched up with the presidential candidate whom you most agree with. It then lists the others in descending order of agreement. I took the test and Dennis Kucinich came out on top, as I expected. I disagreed with him on the answer to the energy question, but it was the wrong question: “Do you support federal assistance for the production of ethanol and/or biofuel as an alternative to oil?” Ethanol is one of the least efficient ways to save energy, but politicians like to support it because that gets them in good with big agribusiness, meaning big contributions. So I said no and he says yes. But we agree on everything else about energy, so we basically agree about everything.
There was an article on sfgate.com (the San Francisco Chronicle) about presidential campaigns hiring experts on blogging, MySpace, etc., to get their person more web presence. It didn’t mention Kucinich. So I’m stepping up to the plate and putting a link here to Kucinich’s site, and you can see where he really stands on energy.
I do love the internet. And the older I get, the more I rely on it. I was trying to remember Kate Wolf’s name and couldn’t, so I googled “Give Yourself to Love” and there it was. It would have come to me in a few minutes or a few hours, but the internet delivers it in seconds. When we took the train down the Hudson last month, I saw an island flash past with a castle on it and a sign saying Bannerman’s something. My curiosity was aroused, and is now satisfied at hudsonriver.com
Claudia subscribed to the paper edition of the SF Chronicle at some bargain price and we are now inundated with newsprint. I usually skip Parade Magazine, but this time they did have an article on our antiquated rail system and how the government could get it up to the quality of passenger railroads in other industrialized countries. Railroads, of course, use much less energy per passenger mile than cars or planes, and have more leg room. The article mentioned a survey on their website asking people if they thought the government should do so. I took the jump from print to web and said yes. By that time, over seven hundred readers had done the same. The results then: 99% said yes, 1% said no.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
REAL ENERGY-SAVERS
